It may be wise to wrap with parens, only if command starts with '{', at
least newcomers (to JavaScript) may be puzzled to find not valid code
giving strange success results.
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Mariusz Nowak
https://github.com/medikoo
On Friday, June 15, 2012 6:26:37 PM UTC+2, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
>
> It's a feature! :)
>
> Seriously, though, it's universally annoying for {foo: "bar"} to
> resolve to "bar" rather than {foo: "bar"}. In their haste, Netscape
> released Brendan's creation into the wild before it was fully
> finished, and in the organic iteration process, we came to have object
> literals using syntax that is indistinguishable from blocks (which do
> nothing) and labels (which also do nothing). The only way out of the
> mess is to wrap in parens, and it has this weird effect on function
> calls, or implement a smarter parser than eval(), and that's much more
> complicated, or try to be clever about when you wrap and when you
> don't, which also adds complexity for little benefit.
>
> It's ok how it is, really.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Adam Blackburn <regal...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I just discovered a really magical bug, that may not be significant
> enough
> > to care about.
> >
> > If you open your node repl and run:
> >
> > > console.log)("oh hai"
> >
> > It will happily greet you without any syntax errors.
> >
> > I found the issue is here, where it wraps your command in parens. So it
> > really runs (console.log)("oh hai").
> >
> > Thoughts? Worth caring about?
> >
>
